Environmental microbiology; metagenomics; anaerobic wastewater and groundwater treatment; environmental engineering

Selected publications:

1. Luo, Fei, Cheryl E Devine, and Elizabeth A Edwards. 2016. “Cultivating Microbial Dark Matter in Benzene-Degrading Methanogenic Consortia.” Environmental Microbiology 18 (9): 2923–36. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13121.
2. Molenda, Olivia, Shuiquan Tang, Line Lomheim, Vasu K Gautam, Sofia Lemak, Alexander F Yakunin, Karen L Maxwell, and Elizabeth A Edwards. 2018. “Extrachromosomal Circular Elements Targeted by CRISPR-Cas in Dehalococcoides Mccartyi Are Linked to Mobilization of Reductive Dehalogenase Genes.” The ISME Journal, August. Springer US, 1–15. doi:10.1038/s41396-018-0254-2.
3. Pérez-de-Mora, Alfredo, Anna Lacourt, Michaye L McMaster, Xiaoming Liang, Sandra M Dworatzek, and Elizabeth A Edwards. 2018. “Chlorinated Electron Acceptor Abundance Drives Selection of Dehalococcoides Mccartyi (D. Mccartyi) Strains in Dechlorinating Enrichment Cultures and Groundwater Environments.” Frontiers in Microbiology 9 (May): 968–14. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.00812.
4. Wang, Po Hsiang, Anna N Khusnutdinova, Fei Luo, Johnny Xiao, Kayla Nemr, Robert Flick, Greg Brown, Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, Elizabeth A Edwards, and Alexander F Yakunin. 2018. “Biosynthesis and Activity of Prenylated FMN Cofactors.” Cell Chemical Biology, March. doi:10.1016/j.chembiol.2018.02.007.
5. Wang, Po Hsiang, Shuiquan Tang, Kayla Nemr, Robert Flick, Jun Yan, Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, Alexander F Yakunin, Frank E Löffler, and Elizabeth A Edwards. 2016. “Refined Experimental Annotation Reveals Conserved Corrinoid Autotrophy in Chloroform-Respiring Dehalobacter Isolates.” The ISME Journal, November. Nature Publishing Group, 1–15. doi:10.1038/ismej.2016.158.